Since he was announced as the 2019 Oscar ceremony host yesterday, some of the offensive things Kevin Hart has said in the past have been circulating on social media.

Considering how many of the Oscars' biggest fans are women and gay men it's quite something for the Academy to hire a guy who beat one wife, cheated on another when she was eight months pregnant and said one of his biggest fears is his son growing up and being gay.

Kevin Hart wrote in his memoir about getting physical with his ex-wife and how he ended up spending a night in jail after one of their fights.

A clip from an old standup special where he talked about how much he feared his son being gay and how he knocked over his young son and another boy because they were "having a gay moment" is being brought up. When asked in 2015, years after the joke was made, Kevin said he wouldn't tell the joke today not because the joke was wrong, but because people are too sensitive.

People also found some of his old homophobic tweets that he tweeted and never deleted.

The Oscars are an event with a pretty substantial gay following and I don't think that's true for most things Kevin Hart does. Interviewers have asked him about the gay jokes in the past but for the most part the fanbase for whatever Will Ferrell movie he's in at any point in time isn't going to care too much if at all.